Axel Christensen, Managing Director, is Chief Investment Strategist for Latin America at the BlackRock Investment Institute. He is also a member of the Latin America Executive Committee. Mr. Christensen's service with the firm dates to 2009, including the role of Head of South America ex Brazil for BlackRock. Previously, he spent close to 15 years in several investment-related positions at institutional investment firms in Chile, as well as at Citicorp and McKinsey. Mr. Christensen has served as a member of the Advisory Council on Capital Reform for Chile's Finance Ministry from 2008 to 2018. He was nominated to the Global Young Leaders program of the World Economic Forum in 2008. Mr. Christensen earned an industrial engineering degree with distinction from the Catholic University of Chile in 1992 and an MBA degree from Stanford University in 1996, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He is fluent in Spanish and English.